Added the missing README and
LICENSE text for the commercial packages.
(Bug #19675930)

For Windows, the Utilities MSI distribution package was setting
the wrong permissions for the generated installation directory,
which included all permissions granted for the 'Users' group.
Now, the only permission set here for the 'Users' group is
read-only.
(Bug #19611879)

The failure detector was specifying a set of groups as lockable
objects, and a failover operation could potentially run while a
group was being updated by another operation which could lead to
unpredictable results.
(Bug #19594070, Bug #73873)

A debugging message was being sent through the Fabric RPC
protocol.
(Bug #19588383, Bug #73864)

Due to licensing conflicts between OpenSSL and GPL, SSL support
is not included in the community edition for Windows.
(Bug #19487002)

For Fabric, Connectors inserting large amount of data before the
TTL expires, after a resharding metadata update, could cause
inconsistencies between the sharding definition and the data on
the shard.
(Bug #19427027, Bug #73546)

Separate CHANGES and
README files were added to the commercial
distribution.
(Bug #19380635)

Fabric could return an incorrect "lower_bound" length, depending
on the character set.
(Bug #19352961, Bug #73218)

The --disable-binary-logging flag of the
mysqldbcompare utility did not function
properly. It always required SUPER privileges in cases where the
server had binary logging enabled, it was enabled internally
even when not in use, and it threw an error when attempting to
generate SQL statements for the differences between tables if
one of the rows had columns with NULL values.

Also, the ability to call the to_sql method for each column was
added, which is enabled by default for the CSV output type.
(Bug #19320164, Bug #73426)

The mysqlserverclone utility did not check
for a low amount of free space before it created a new instance
of the server. It now errors out if 120+ MB of free space is
unavailable, but this check can be ignored by also passing in
the --force option.

Additionally, the error handling for failed new data directory
creation was improved to show additional details about the
failure.
(Bug #19303700, Bug #73366)

When copying views that depended on sub-views that were not yet
copied, some utilities such as mysqldbcopy
failed. The dependency related code was fixed to solve this
problem.
(Bug #19302898, Bug #73383)

The policy command for the mysqlauditadmin
utility failed when applied to recent MySQL server versions
(such as MySQL 5.6.20 and 5.7.5). This is because
audit_log_policy is now a READONLY variable
(Bug #19259597)

The utilities did not parse all types of GRANT statements, such
as those with PROXY privileges and stored routines. The
utilities could also fail when objects contained backticks.
(Bug #19238432)

The mysqldbcompare utility failed when
comparing two databases while using the SQL difftype.
(Bug #19174364, Bug #72181)

Commands accept either a UUID or an address (i.e. host:port) to
specify a server. The code was ignoring that a wrong address
could be provided, and in consequence the execution could hang.
The address is now validated before it is used.

If the server belongs to a group, the address is checked against
the information stored in the state store.

If the server is not part of a group, Fabric will try to access
the server until a timeout is reached. The default value for
this timeout is defined through the option "unreachable_timeout"
in the "servers" section in the configuration file, and it
affects the following commands:

server lookup_uuid address [--timeout=NONE] ...

server clone group_id destn_address [--timeout=NONE] ...

group add group_id address [--timeout=NONE] ...

(Bug #19172889, Bug #73233)

Some of try/exception blocks were catching the DatabaseError
exception and raising a new exception without propagating
information from the original problem.

The error messages were improved by adding information about the
server where the error originated, and the caught DatabaseError
information is merged into the appropriate objects.
(Bug #18999358, Bug #18370950, Bug #73019)

The --force option was removed from the
mysqlfabric utility. It was removed to help
alleviate confusion about its purpose. Its functionality was
replaced by clearer status messages that are always printed out.
(Bug #18991971, Bug #72931)

The --skip-innodb option is used by the
utilities, but this option is ignored in MySQL 5.7+. A warning
is now issued for this scenario.
(Bug #18753983, Bug #72633)

The mysqldiff utility's
--skip-table-options option would fail when
comparing two tables with different column ordering, or when
also setting the --difftype option to SQL.
(Bug #18632836, Bug #72178)

The RPM installation failed to check for the required
Connector/Python version, and having the incorrect version
installed caused "mysqlfabric manage setup" to fail.
(Bug #18450008)